Hello my name is Lonnie Grim, tech director and competition director for Holley LS Fest
2017, which will be happening in September 8, 9, and 10, Beech Bend Park, Bowling Green,
Kentucky.
I want to talk to you today about a few classes, as your looking online at LS Fest, and what
class do I enter, where does my car fit?
So what we're going to do is we're going to go through those classes today to give you
a better idea of where you may want to enter the competition.
First of all I need to get you to go to LSFest.com, look it over, check out the drag packages.
We'll start with Rumble.
Rumble is the quarter second increment index class.
If your car is a performance level quarter mile between eleven flat and fifteen flat,
rumble would be your class of choice.
You'll get to make multiple qualifying positions, you'll get multiple hits on the race track
during test and tune, figure out where your car best fits in those quarter second indexes,
pick one, that will be what you race with on Sunday during elimination, again rumble
from eleven flat to fifteen flat, quarter mile.
Street King could be for you, again quarter second increments, it goes from eight flat
down to ten seventy five is the lowest index in street king, again if you have a car that
is a Friday night warrior or a Saturday only weekend race car, or a hot street car and
it runs from 10 seventy five down to eight flat quarter mile quarter second indexes,
street king would be the class that you would choose.
Late model heads up, few rules apply, car must be late model enough to have come with
eighteen inch rear wheel and tire, from that point forward it does not matter what tire
and wheel combination you bring on your late model car, eighteen inch is the minimum wheel,
245 is the minimum tire but we don't care what combination of tire and wheel you put
on your late model car, it will be heads up competition, first one to the finish line
wins.
Real street at LS Fest, it's a class that has recently been moved over to eighth mile,
it's going to run in the four eighty range so if you've got a car that fits the class
rules of real street, and those rules can be found at LSFest.com, look up real street.
So for all you COPO Camaro owners, LS Fest 2017 also will include you with the COPO battle
at the green.
Qualifying this year for COPO will be based on reaction time so everyone has a chance
to win $250 from best reaction time for qualifying, from that point forward, COPOs will race on
a dialed in format with no scale and no fuel check, paying some decent money to win and
also some round money to help you make the trip home, so if you're a COPO owner with
a CRC car or a true COPO, COPO battle at the green at LS Fest is your class.
There's a few guys in the country that have what we call the ultimate LS powered race
car, that would be our drag radial class.
Single turbo, twin turbo, lots of Nitrous bottles, big pro chargers, big vortex, those
cars run in the 4.20 range down in to the fourteens.
If the sun goes down and the weather gets right we can see an LS power drag radial car
go in the teens at LS Fest 2017, again if your car fits drag radial found at LSFest.com,
join us and bring it, let's see how much you got.
Chevy performance stock.
What is that?
Well Chevrolet offers a crate race motor, comes with seals all over it, you can't tear
it apart, you can't touch it you can't work on it, theres rules to be found at LSFest.com,
check out CPS, Chevy performance stock, it's heads up, they're running in the 10.30 range
over 3,000 pounds, you buy a factory race motor from GM, this thing will run multiple
seasons.
It's automatic, it's stick shift trannies, Chevy product only, Chevrolet performance
stock will be your class.
Also new to Holley LS Fest this year Bowling Green is the Grudge test-n-tune, if you've
looked over the classes and you're not for sure where you fit or don't want the pressure
of racing somebody in eliminations, I just want to go and have a heck of a good time
at LS Fest, grudge test-n-tune would be for you.
grudge test-n-tune participants will get access to the race track starting at 9 AM on Friday.
They will be included in the all day test-n-tune which will happen up until 3 PM, after 3 PM
the LS Fest event will start with qualifying for all the listed classes but grudge test-n-tune
will still be included in those run schedules so you'll still have ample runs Friday evening,
all day Saturday, and all day Sunday up to final eliminations, grudge test-n-tune will
be your class.
One of the big things that happens at LS Fest every year is true street, true street's another
class you can come in and have a great time, you get multiple runs down the race track
durning the test-n-tune session which will happen on Friday from 9 AM to 3 PM, there
will be multiple places Friday and both Saturday morning for additional runs down the race
track and true street, true street will leave the facility after a mandatory drivers meeting
Saturday morning, we'll leave the facility and go on a thirty mile country side cruise,
we'll come back from that cruise and we'll load into the staging lanes where we'll have
a short cool down period before we start our true street runs, don't call them eliminations
because what you'll do in true street is you'll make three runs, we're looking for the best
average of those runs that you'll make and we give awards for closest to 9 flat all the
way to closest to 15 flat without going under as you're average, get you a plaque, one hundred
dollars and gas money to go home and a hell of a good time at LS Fest.
So make a plan September 8, 9, and 10, Holley LS Fest Bowling Green, Kentucky, Beech Bend
Raceway Park.